I�m experimenting with separate the widget from the skin� problem is sometimes theming is just change colors, but some others is widget building it self, so we will need widget factories (for theme), etc.�

all is doable, but all implies time :)

On 07 Jan 2014, at 11:07, St�phane Ducasse <Stephane.Ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

I think this is too convoluted because, like Estaban says, you want to keep the theming orthogonal with widget definition.

Yes I do not like it either.

But, you gave me an idea:

If we implement in Morph the followings:

Morph>>themer

� � ^ themer ifNil: [self themerFor: self theme]

what would be self theme I do not really like the idea to have all the morph talking to UITheme�

theme

^ UITheme current�

is not sexy to me�

Morph>>themerFor: aTheme

� � ^ self subclassResponsibility

And then in a morph we would have something like this:

SpotlightItemMorph>>themerFor: aTheme

� � ^ aTheme�spotterThemer

SpotlightItemMorph>>onSelected

self themer configureSelectedItemMorph: self

�

Then we could simply do pretty much what you want:

SpotlightItemMorph new themer: MySpotterThemer new.

I like this idea. What do you think?

I do not know. Now what is clear is that we need strategy as in your original design. I was thinking about that too.

Stef